Utopias

Mark Featherstone, Malcom Miles (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

164 Seiten

2014
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6818-2 (ISBN)

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Following the collapse of communist and socialist utopianism in the twentieth century, the global economic crisis has foreclosed the promise of a neoliberal consumerist utopia in the twenty first. This issue considers what happens when people believe that the system they currently inhabit does not work, but they see few viable alternatives, and wide-scale change seems impossible in any case. Considering history, fiction, art, and economic theory, the contributors think about the ways in which a vital future might emerge from an exhausted culture. Topics include narratives of catastrophe and escape in Cold War fiction, the narcotic haze of amusement culture in China, an interview with autonomist Paolo Virno on social individualism and imagination, and the meaning of protest and utopian critique in contemporary art. These essays seize a critical opportunity for new forms of cultural politics to emerge. The contributors explore how the current dystopian worldview points toward alternative utopian futures.

Mark Featherstone and Malcolm Miles - Utopias: An IntroductionJohn Beck and Mark Dorrian - Postcatastrophic UtopiasGair Dunlop - Gateways to BletchleyMark Chou - Democrats against DemocracyMark Featherstone - Chinese Bulimia: Utopia, Dystopia, and The Fat YearsTao Dongfeng - Understanding our own "Death by Amusement": The Hijacking of a Western Cultural Theory in ChinaThierry Bardini - On Multitude and Beyond: An Interview with Paolo VirnoJonathan Harris - System, Totality, Representation: "Utopian Globalist" Gestures of Dissent in Late Cold War Visual Arts and CultureMalcolm Miles - Farewell to Revolution

Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-8223-6818-8 / 0822368188
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-6818-2 / 9780822368182
Zustand	Neuware